Comment by wmf
9 hours ago
Technically the Internet runs on "the Internet Protocol Suite" but people just say "TCP/IP" for short. That doesn't mean to exclude UDP, SCTP, or whatever.
9 hours ago
Technically the Internet runs on "the Internet Protocol Suite" but people just say "TCP/IP" for short. That doesn't mean to exclude UDP, SCTP, or whatever.
So what exactly does he mean then?
He means the Internet runs on the Internet Protocol Suite and not the "superior" OSI Protocol Suite (that people under age 50 have never heard of because it failed).
The OSI model still gets taught in networking classes to people in their teens and 20s.
And because of that, badly reinvented mostly through HTTP